I Am Soft For Klave

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[softforklave]

The Big Klave Fic Rec

This is for my lovely @cemeteryklaus I hope you enjoy this! You will not run out of klave fics on my watch ;)

I have excessively been reading klave fics since s1 came out in February 2019, when there was only one page under the Klaus Hargreeves/Dave tag on ao3 (before our King shared his full name on Twitter). There are currently 2001 fics on ao3, and I can (un)fortunately say I have read almost all of them (what am I doing with my life?). Klave has been blessed with so many talented writers, so this is quite the list. Many of them have written more than one fic (some even over 50!), and since they are all amazing, it would take ages to list them all. Therefore, I have decided to recommend authors who have written two or more klave fics and linking to their the umbrella academy ao3 works page. Go read all of their works, and I can guarantee that every single fic is wonderful! And dont forget to leave kudos and comments, our writers deserve all the love and appreciation that we can give them! 

I also highly encourage people reblogging with their favourite fics, if you want to show the writers some more love or if I have forgotten your favourite fic (you can also dm me if you want me to add it on)! I have tried to @ the authors, but sometimes it can be hard to find the right blogs. Please let me know if I have tagged you wrong, forgotten to tag you or dont want me to tag you, I will remove the @ at once! I will try to update this as I continue to excessively consume klave content (though this is limited to ao3 and tumblr), so please come back to this list for more recommendations. Happy Reading! <3

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[knucklecurve]

alexander “sasha” hockeycoachevich nolastname

[ottawa--centaurs]

they'd get scott as a guest judge on US drag race and his opinions would honestly kinda suck. kip's friends don't ever let kip live that down

[lesbiandry]

[smokingrozanov]

Never forget that after their first hookup Shane was in his hotel room like fuck. Fuck I’m such a failure. He swallowed & I didn’t even try to let him cum in my mouth. If spitters are quitters what am I??? A fucking loser that’s what. But definitely not a gay one. Next time I’ll swallow. In a no homo way.

[scartafacci]

hall of fame for the moment in this scene when shane was like, “damn it!!! he wins again.” 🙄

and the way he keeps thinking about it months later even when he’s having lunch with his parents because how can he ever let that go 🙄

new competition officially unlocked ✅

meanwhile these are ilya’s thoughts:

ilya: why can’t i stop thinking about him? is he at least wondering what i’m doing? i love playing against him because he’s undeniably amazing and he’s adorable and he looks like an angry kitten when i chirp at him which is why i do it and he has such a lovely smile and such lovely manners and he speaks perfect french and i watch all of his interviews and he was so eager when we were together and how i wish i had his phone number i can’t wait to see him again.

shane: is he winning at blow jobs? god this is so fucking annoying.

[ilyapasta]

Ilyapasta Fic Rec Special Edition: Episode 5 All-Stars Tampa Missing Scene

What a nightmare, I had to reread and review all the Tampa missing scene fics in my bookmarks to make this list! This is exactly what it says on the tin. If you're as horned up for fics that fill in the blanks between Shane rocking Ilya in his big strong arms between his big strong thighs and the bed looking like a tornado ran through it, look no further. There are as many takes on this lacuna as there are stars in the sky, here are some of my current favorites.

Obviously, all these fics are rated Mature or Explicit, we're doing a missing sex scene here. Please read all tags and warnings yourself.

the heart is hard to translate (it has a language of its own) by @pageandpetals (Ilya POV, beautiful, beefy fic- 11k! They go two rounds in this one- I'm passionate that they would fuck more than once!, and there's some gorgeous sensory detail and quality Ilya inner monologue. Highlight for me is Ilya's Russian confessions to Shane while they're having sex. They also talk and bond, lots of pillow talk. Top Notch, don't miss.)

honey and milk are under your tongue by EveFrancesca @sailyourshipsaroundme (Ilya POV with some inventive and stirring added backstory, lyrical prose, fucking without a condom for the first time, Ilya Rozanov cries during sex, poetic rich internal life Ilya- my weakness!, just really beautiful emotional erotica, I fuck severely with things inspired by Song of Solomon of course)

One Hell of a Drug (FLORIDA) by verbaepulchellae (Shane POV, 69ing- rare treat in this fandom! Ilya mole appreciation, emotional reunion, technically written when the show aired but before ep5 so more based on book canon)

i could take away the salt from your eyes by @porcelainmortal (Shane POV, blowjobs, Slightly dominant Ilya making Shane voice what he wants from him, this has more of a hook-up feeling, like they're still in their old habits but there's this unspoken feeling of More)

call out my name by LetMeDown (Shane POV, frantic but romantic sex, there's some stuff in here you don't see a lot where Ilya comforts Shane more about coming out- sometimes we forget that Shane just accepted that he's not going to settle down with a nice girl, biblically accurate dirty talk as they lose control, good stuff)

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Shameless self-recs! All by yours truly Ilyapasta (destielpasta on ao3). It's my rec list and I can self promote if I want to:

a man of his word (Ilya POV, shameless manipulation of first name saying, dry humping, Intercrural (thigh) sex, my favorite piece of Ilya dialogue I've ever written and I used it up in my first HR fic oops)

Untitled Tumblr Ficlet (just a snapshot of a larger unwritten scene, they've already gone two rounds and this is the third, get your overwrought clock metaphors here)

the name your parents gave you (Ilya POV, technically this is not just a Tampa fic, but an exploration of all the missing scenes between tuna melts and the Tampa scene)

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And that's all I have for now! I have a passion for Tampa fics though so I might do a part 2 as more emerge. Never stop asking yourself, how can I make this freakier? How can I make them cry more as they reunite? If you wrote a Tampa fic or want to rec one please drop it in the replies and I WILL check it out. No one is safe.

If you can, please leave the authors a comment if you enjoy their fics! I know they would appreciate it.

[oshell-on-ice]

I just know Ilya brags on interview every time Shane is The Shane Hollander on the ice. And not like "my husband is so good" kinda way but in "Say thank you Ottawa I brought our winner back home, you should adore me for bringing home the spoil of my life long victory (my marriage) bow before me for I am the king's beloved and he loves me so much he's giving you a cup this year BC I like it here" kinda way

[shanyshko]

ilya mad shane came up to talk to him like he wasn't stalking the fuck out of shane in that ice rink. yeah he just happened to be watching canadian men's figure skating the day after losing to latvia complete coincidence shane was there. it's like when cats bite you after following you into a room. shane's like omg kitty! and ilya is like NOOOO NO NO YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SEE ME OBVIOUSLY FOLLOWING YOU

[shanyshko]

this scene looks like this to me

[hunybody]

gay scott hunter in the brooklyn art gallery: they’re going to kill me for talking to another man

shane hollander in his fortress of isolation: nobody will shoot me with a gun for being gay in my canadian mansion, because they can’t, because i am off the grid

ilya rozanov [thick russian accent]: i am going to live forever and never die and if i die who gives a fuck theyre pussies for killing me honestly

kip: grady

[russianblush]

ilya: 😏 shane: 🙂

[ilyapasta]

I'm all out of elegant well-phrased thoughts. Anyone else think Ilya "gonna butter him up so he stays" Rozanov sucked Shane off on the countertop when Shane got to his house in episode four? Like, he didn't pull that move of lifting Shane onto the countertop just to kiss right? It was Step 1A of his grand plan, titled: "suck him off while in a half-squat." Anyone else think he made Shane come like three times so that by the time he asked Shane to stay the night Shane was like 90% sex hormone, 5% Hockey on TV later, 4% hungry guy, and 1% thinking brain? Forget the tuna melts. Ilya was like "I have to exhaust him physically and deposit him on the couch with hockey on TV in comfy oversized sweats and his favorite Canadian soda." Ilya knew he couldn't put on a shirt this day. The shirtlessness was the primary anchor of The Plan. All this was planned. And the son of a bitch almost pulled it off.

[ilyapasta]

No one is doing it like Ilya Rozanov. He’s in a gladiator costume. He sent the rookies home from his party because he’s depressed. His boyfriend drove two hours with a butt plug in because Ilya looks hot in that gladiator costume and Hayden Pike called him a prude and that bothers him. Shane said I’m a freak and I need my boyfriend to know that, but Ilya can’t stop crying thinking about Shane. Ilya is looking down at his plugged up boyfriend giving him a bj under the gladiator skirt and he’s got tears in his eyes. He’s alarmed by the tears in his eyes and responds by fucking Shane nearly upside down on the couch like an inversion table. He’s doing fine. Maybe he should think about therapy.

[fractally]

Sometimes people say that Ilya’s characterization changes dramatically from HR to TLG but I think it’s more like the “expectation / reality” frame from 50 Days of Summer. We spend most of HR in Shane’s head perceiving Ilya as the coolest hottest man alive and the minute we hop into Ilya’s head it’s like oh. Oh no this man is sticking a fork into his toaster

[fractally]

The character choice of Shane renovating and letting two apartments sit empty for years just so he can get railed in peace four times a year is possibly one of my favorite character choices in recent fiction. It’s so batshit it feels like it belongs to something rather than the fluffy gay romance show

[trippedlaces]

To be clear, at this point I’m just mindlessly variating on a theme because I’m avoiding my WIP and stuck waiting for beans to finish cooking, but you really do have to hand it to Rachel Reid for inventing a completely new kind of internalized homophobia for Shane Hollander.

He’s acting at all times like he lives in a country where it’s illegal to be gay because he’s a citizen of the Commonwealth of Professional Hockey. At every moment he’s at risk of being crushed to death by a bolder of shame and his only canonical opinion about religion is that it has less utility than left skate/right skate superstition. He’s unmoored in space and time, using a Blackberry to arrange a hookup with a 1954-ass level of paranoia that would have helped him survive McCarthyism. 

[hunybody]

living in the world where ilya and svetlana go on a zaney abortion road trip across the usa. and yes obviously she is pregnant by ilya. they discussed ilya throwing her down the stairs and also the effects of party drugs vis a vis abortion success before packing up his jag (with 21 miles of gas in it) and heading down the highway

[hunybody]

it is CRUCIAL to me that svetlana is also an idiot. like they’re both incredibly smart and have stunning people skills and have drive and talent and shine like precious rare beetles to me obviously. but ilya is stupid as bricks and, as his lifelong best friend, i MUST conclude that svetlana is stupid in an identical way. All this to say i think they’re trying insane abortion home remedies they get from etsy witches ilya finds online when it’s svetlana’s turn to drive. and also from maureen the diner waitress who swears her aunt drank from a specific well and had a barren womb for the rest of her life.

[hunybody]

they reminisce fondly about their route 66 abortion roadtrip in front of shane years later and he gets so jealous he has to leave to pace in the yard. it should have been HIM that got teenage pregnant and had to abort for his career while ilya supportively held his hand down a scenic highway at sunset! fuck!

[chemdoodles]

1x04. Shane is so chill!

[eemolu]

the idea that hollander "tamed" rozanov is really funny to shane because like. ilya finds it hot and is always going along with it, yes of course my husband is so sexy why do you think i moved to this boring fucking city. for dick. meanwhile shane knows the truth which is that ilya tamed himself. he herded shane like a sheepdog until he was exactly in the right position for ilya to flop down at his feet and say i love you, i am a one man guy, sleep with other people if you want but you are it for me, so shane is always there like ??? ilya. what are you talking about. i was literally prepared to be a secret slot on your roster for the rest of time without even admitting that i was gay until you decided to have me over make me lunch and say my name while you come like a love confession and ilya goes lyubmiyy. shut up. i was untamable you tamed the untamable and so shane has to be like yes, baby, i worked so hard, i used all my tricks but he's rolling his eyes because ilya wants to be a wolf shane coaxed inside to sleep on the hearth but instead he's a cat who snuck through the window and fell in love with his prey. self domesticated. and this is just one of the many perfect games they play